Gallery: 2014 IRONMAN Asia Pacific Championship Melbourne

Photo Credit: Delly Carr | IRONMAN

Luxembourg’s Dirk Bockel outlasted a host of Aussies to take the Asia-Pacific championship in a breakthrough performance. On the women’s front Caroline Steffen, who has undergone all manner of changes including moving to new coach Chris McCormack, returned to her winning ways.

The third IRONMAN event in Melbourne was perhaps over-shadowed with the announcement by three-time IRONMAN world champion Craig Alexander that it was his final race over the full distance.